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If you do this and I am the one interviewing you, I will fail you. I will figure out what you actually do/don't know and if you are incapable of performing at the applied level, I will fail you.

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Thats fine, but the majority of engineers at Meta/Google will be impressed

This needs a [citation needed] sort of flag.

I think the strategy they are describing is to just memorize a bunch of stuff, and then interview until an interviewer happens to not catch on. Either they’ll get someone less prudent than you, or, I mean, you can’t possibly test everything, right?

I have no idea if this really works though, it seems insanely tedious and also there aren’t that many companies to roll the dice at.

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